Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-09
THE LEGISLATURES.
THE SENATE.

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SACRAMENTO, March 8.--A message
was received from the Governor vetoing
the bill appropriating $4,000 for re-
volving fund for the manufacture Of jute
at San Quentin. The veto message was
made the special order for to morrow
morning. The Governor has approved
the bill appropriating $4,000 for the
Home for Feeble. Minded Children; also
the bill giving loggers lien on logs cut
or hauled by them, the bill authorizing q
tax of three cents for the maintenance OF
parks, and the bill regulating the deslgna-
tion and number of civil executive Off
GERS of the State.
At the evening session Vrooman Of
fered resolution to adjourn at mid.
night tomorrow. Carried. The Pilot bill
was reported by the committee and
amended SO as to re-enact the present
law and, as amended, its passage was
recommended. No action was taken,
although q petition in favor of lower
rates was received from Sacramento
firms. The Senate bill was amended
providing that water for irrigation, when
enjoined, may be used until the case is
determined by the courts, by filing in.
demnity bonds.
A petition was presented from the
Sacramento Board of Trade urging the
passage of Brooks Pilot bill. A similar
petition signed by the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce was also pre-
sented.
The Senate has refused to accept the
amendments made by the Assembly to
the Appropriation bill. and conference
committee composed of Moffitt, White
and Vrooman was appointed.
THE ASSEMBLY.
In the Assembly to day a message was
received from the Governor stating that
he hal approved Mahler's bill, appro.
priating $4,000 for monument over the
grave Of James w. Marshall, the dis
coverer Of gold in California. Brierly's
bill to create an Irrigation, Drainage and
Water-Rights Legislation Commission, to
define its powers and duties, and to pro.
vide for the payment of its costs and ex.
penses, was taken up out of order and
read the second time. It was amended
by making it the duty of the Commits.
sioners to examine the subject of water
rights in connection with hydraulic
mining, and raises the appropriation to
$4,000. The bill was made the
special order for tomorrow afternoon.
Variels substitute resolution, relative
to mining debris, was adopted. After a
long preamble, it continues: Resolved.
that our Senators be instructed, and our
members of Congress be requested, to
take such steps as will, in their judg-
ment, relieve the mining industry OF CAL
ifornia from it's present status, and to
that end procure the passage of reso-
luton in Congress resembling the reso-
lution by which the sum OF
$4,000 was appropriated at the
last session to prosecute miners,
and that the unused portion of that
money, together with such other sums
as can be procured from Congress, be
applied first to an immediate and
thorough Investigation of the mining
debris question by commission OF
competent Government Engineers, for
the purpose of asceriaining whether
some plan can be devised whereby the
present conflict between the mining and
farming sections may be adjusted, and
the mining industry rehabilitated.
Second, to the carrying out of such
plans in the event of any suitable ones
be ing determined on.
Brierly's bill providing for the print
ing, electrotyping and distributing of the
State series of textbooks, was finally
passed.